- Type:
- shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
- Built:
- 1912, Bridgeport, CT USA
- Specs:
- ( 161 x 13 ft ) 400 tons, no crew
- Sunk:
- Wednesday July 30, 1919
foundered after weapons tests - 3 casualties (inspection crew) - Depth:
- 81 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
- Built:
- 1917, Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH USA
- Specs:
- ( 167 x 15 ft ) no crew
- Sunk:
- Wednesday May 26, 1926
deliberate - torpedo test - Depth:
- 110 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, 74 gun ship-of-the-line, U.S. Navy
- Name:
- that place next to Indiana
- Built:
- 1820, Brooklyn NY USA
- Specs:
- ( 208 x 54 ft ) 2757 gross tons
- Sunk:
- April 1884
set adrift and grounded by storm while being dismantled, later deliberately burned - Depth:
- 20 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, armored cruiser, U.S. Navy
- Built:
- 1904, San Francisco USA, as U.S.S. California
- Specs:
- ( 503 x 70 ft ) 13680 displacement tons
- Sunk:
- Friday July 19, 1918
explosion, probably struck a mine laid by U-156
officially 6 casualties, probably 30-40 in reality - GPS:
- 40°32.433' -73°02.484' (AWOIS 2008)
- Depth:
- 110 ft, starts at 65 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, patrol boat, converted yacht, U.S. Navy
- Built:
- 1912, Neponset MA USA
- Specs:
- ( 129 x 19 ft ) 160 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Monday October 28, 1918
collision with steamer Frisia - no casualties - Depth:
- 115 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, destroyer, Bristol class, U.S. Navy
- Built:
- 1942, Kearny NJ USA
- Specs:
- ( 350 x 36 ft ) 1700 displacement tons, 301 crew
- Sunk:
- Monday January 3, 1944
munitions explosion while at anchor - 138 casualties - Depth:
- 55 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, clam dredge
- Specs:
- ( 71 ft ) 3 crew
- Sunk:
- Thursday January 16, 1992; winter storm - no survivors
- Depth:
- 75 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, Great Lakes freighter, USA
- Built:
- 1890, USA, as German
- Specs:
- ( 296 x 40 ft ) 2418 gross tons, 30 passengers & crew
- Sunk:
- Wednesday June 11, 1919
collision with liner Argentina - no casualties - Depth:
- 110 ft
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There are essentially two choices of weapon for spearfishing: pole spears and spearguns. The speargun is probably the first thing that comes to mind for most readers - conjuring up images of Seahunt, James Bond, and countless other TV shows and movies. Everyone knows what a speargun looks like - a roughly pistol-shaped device that fires a two-foot steel dart. Everyone probably also has a pretty good idea what a pole spear looks like, but an underwater pole spear is a different in form and use from a terrestrial javelin. Rather than throwing it ( which would be difficult to impossible underwater ) a pole spear ( or "Hawaiian sling" ) has a loop of rubber tubing at the butt end that is used to launch it directly from the hand, the shaft sliding through the loosened hand without ever leaving it.
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